FridayMay 13
ENGLAND:The Championship
play-offs begin with the first leg
of the first semi-final tie.
SaturdayMay 14
ENGLAND:Chelsea meet
Liverpool at Wembley in the
FA Cup final in a repeat of
February’s League Cup final.
Elsewhere there’s more play-off
action in both the Championship
and League Two.SCOTLAND:The Premiership
season concludes, with Celtic
at home to Motherwell.
GERMANY:The Bundesliga
season concludes, with champions
Bayern Munich visiting Wolfsburg,
while Borussia Dortmund face
strugglers Hertha Berlin.
PORTUGAL:The Portuguese
league season also comes to
an end, with Porto potentially
celebrating a title victory at
home to Estoril.
SundayMay 15
WOMEN:The Women’s FA Cup
final takes place between Chelsea
and Manchester City at Wembley.
NETHERLANDS:The Eredivisie
league season concludes, with
Feyenoord facing FC Twente,
Ajax visiting Vitesse Arnhem
and PSV at PEC Zwolle.
MondayMay 16
ISRAEL:The UEFA Under-17
Championship begins in Israel.Global diary
Games and dates to pencil in for the month ahead
TuesdayMay 17
ASIA:The group stage of the
2022 AFC Cup commences.
WednesdayMay 18
SPAIN:Seville’s Ramon Sanchez
Pizjuan stadium hosts the Europa
League final, between either West
Ham United or Eintracht Frankfurt
and Rangers or RB Leipzig.
SaturdayMay 21
WOMEN:The Champions League
final takes place at theJuventus
Stadium, with holders Barcelona
facing French giants Lyon.
ENGLAND:The League One
play-off final takes place at
Wembley Stadium.
SCOTLAND:Rangers face Hearts
in the Scottish FA Cup final.
GERMANY:There will be a
first-time winner of the German
Cup when Freiburg take on RB
Leipzig in this season’s final.
FRANCE:On the final day
of Ligue1, champions Paris
Saint-Germain face strugglers
Metz, while last season’s title
winners Lille travel to Rennes.
SundayMay 22
ENGLAND:Onthefinalday
of the Premier League season,
title chasers Manchester City
and Liverpool host Aston Villa
and Wolverhampton Wanderers
respectively, while strugglers
Everton travel to Arsenal.
ITALY:Serie A also concludes with
Internazionale facing Sampdoria,
while Milan head to Sassuolo.
SPAIN:La Liga leaders Real
Madrid host Copa del Rey winners
Real Betis on the final day of the
Spanish league season, while
Barcelona face Villarreal and Real
Sociedad take on Atletico Madrid.
PORTUGAL:Porto could
complete a league-cup double
when they face Tondela in the
final of the Portuguese Cup at
the Estadio Nacional, Lisbon.VIETNAM:The final of the
2021 Southeast Asian Games
takes place in Hanoi.
TuesdayMay 24
SOUTH AMERICA:The final
matchday of the Copa Libertadores
group stage begins. Holders
Palmeiras host Venezuelan
outfit Deportivo Tachira, and
Velez Sarsfield take on rivals
Estudiantes in an all-Argentinian
clash. The Sudamericana group
stage also concludes.
WednesdayMay 25
ALBANIA:The first-ever Europa
Conference League final takes
place in the Kombetare Arena,
Tirana. Leicester City or Roma will
take on Feyenoord or Marseille.
SaturdayMay 28
FRANCE:The Champions League
final takes place in Paris between
Liverpool or Villarreal and Real
Madrid or Manchester City.
ENGLAND:Wembley is in use
once again, this time staging
the League Two play-off final.
SundayMay 29
AFRICA:The CAF Champions
League final takes place, featuring
either holders Al Ahly or ES Setif
from Algeria, against Angolans
Petro de Luanda or Moroccans
Wydad. Qualifying for AFCON
2023 also gets underway.
ENGLAND:Football’s “richest
game” takes place with the
Championship play-off final.
WednesdayJune 1
EUROPE:Scotland face Ukraine
in the semi-finals of the World Cup
play-offs, while the Nations League
also begins with Poland v Wales.
CONCACAF:The 2022-23
Nations League campaign begins
with Panama v Costa Rica.
ThursdayJune 2
EUROPE:Spain v Portugal is thestandout fixture from the second
day of Nations League action.
FridayJune 3
EUROPE:France meet Denmark,
Belgium take on Netherlands
and Croatia host Austria.
SaturdayJune 4
EUROPE:Italy renew their rivalry
with Germany, while England travel
to Budapest to face Hungary.
SundayJune 5
EUROPE:The winners of the
World Cup play-off between
Scotland and Ukraine head to
Cardiff to face Wales for a place
in Qatar. Meanwhile the Nations
League continues, with Portugal v
Switzerland and Czech Republic
v Spain among the fixtures.
MondayJune 6
EUROPE:Croatia take on France
in the Nations League in a repeat
of the 2018 World Cup final.
TuesdayJune 7
QATAR:United Arab Emirates face
Australia in the Asian World Cup
qualifying play-off.
EUROPE:Germany will seek
revenge for their Euro 2020
defeat when they face England in
Munich, while Italy host Hungary.
WednesdayJune 8
ASIA:The third round of qualifying
for the 2023 Asian Cup begins.
EUROPE:Wales face-off against
Netherlands in Cardiff, Scotland
host Armenia and Republic of
Ireland take on Ukraine in Dublin.
SaturdayJune 11
EUROPE:There are two Euro
2020 rematches, with Hungary
v Germany and England v Italy –
the latter behind closed doors
at Molineux, Wolverhampton.
Elsewhere Republic of Ireland
face Scotland, Wales host Belgium
and Netherlands take on Poland.
AUSTRALIA:Brazil take on
Argentina in a friendly at the
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